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The Woman Who Loved the Moon: And Other Stories by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
A collection of short stories by Lynn. I hadn't known at the time I picked up this book, but apparently she's known for being the first scifi/fantasy author to use openly gay/lesbian characters in her stories. A chain of LGBT bookstores took their name from her books. One of her books, published in 1978, featured a male-male couple. The Woman Who Loved the Moon, published in this book and previously elsewhere, was about a lesbian relationship.
If I was rating this book based only on the first two stories, I would have given it a LOVED instead of okay. The first story was my favorite, the second story I really liked a lot, and everything after that was pretty meh. Short story collections usually end on a high note, so I was holding hope for The Woman Who Loved the Moon, but it really didn't work for me at all.
( Each story briefly reviewed back here. )
Since these were all originally published in the 70s-80s, it's possible writing styles have changed and that's why so many of the stories didn't work for me.
From now on, whenever I get a book of short stories, I'm going to read the first two and the last one, and skip the rest. Every single book of short stories I've read have been set up the same: The first two are the strongest ones, and the last one or two are usually good as well; it's very, very. very rare for me to like a story in the middle. They have to be setting these up that way on purpose.
Currently reading: The Cage by Megan Shepherd.
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
A collection of short stories by Lynn. I hadn't known at the time I picked up this book, but apparently she's known for being the first scifi/fantasy author to use openly gay/lesbian characters in her stories. A chain of LGBT bookstores took their name from her books. One of her books, published in 1978, featured a male-male couple. The Woman Who Loved the Moon, published in this book and previously elsewhere, was about a lesbian relationship.
If I was rating this book based only on the first two stories, I would have given it a LOVED instead of okay. The first story was my favorite, the second story I really liked a lot, and everything after that was pretty meh. Short story collections usually end on a high note, so I was holding hope for The Woman Who Loved the Moon, but it really didn't work for me at all.
( Each story briefly reviewed back here. )
Since these were all originally published in the 70s-80s, it's possible writing styles have changed and that's why so many of the stories didn't work for me.
From now on, whenever I get a book of short stories, I'm going to read the first two and the last one, and skip the rest. Every single book of short stories I've read have been set up the same: The first two are the strongest ones, and the last one or two are usually good as well; it's very, very. very rare for me to like a story in the middle. They have to be setting these up that way on purpose.
Currently reading: The Cage by Megan Shepherd.
